Humans dancing with a large yellow headless creature; 6000–5500 BC. From cave of beasts, Egypt
Humans dancing with a large yellow headless creature; 6000–5500 BC. From cave of beasts, Egypt
cave of beasts earned its name from the 30+ figures of headless large creatures, depicted often interacting with humans. These “beasts” appear to hold tiny humans or hybrid creatures. They are mostly the center of attention, surrounded by humans who are eager to touch them. Sometimes they all seem to be dancing together. A lot of them also have oddly elongated necks.
In a scene, two headless yellow beasts stretch their arms to welcome what looks like a tiny human (or a child?)
A similar creature was also found in Cave of swimmers in the same place. Such depictions of headless creatures in a similar manner have not been found outside this region.
Upon further research, most beasts were headless, while some were depicted with heads and intentionally disfigured by the ones who drew it. There seems to be no decipherment of this as of now.